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		philwelch on Jan 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Philosophy as a public service You’d think that, but we pedants managed to rescue the word “ironic” at one point.

GauntletWizard on Jan 2, 2020 [–]

But you've figuratively lost "literally".

philwelch on Jan 4, 2020 | [–]

That's just highly advanced irony; using the word "literally" non-literally.

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